This is probably my favorite image from our trip to Turkey. We were near Ephesus, visiting the Basilica of St. John. It is a beautiful and very photogenic church built in the 6th century AD, with lots of doorframes and arches that created wonderful internal framing opportunities. While chatting with our guide, I was a little bummed when a large group of Coptic nuns showed up to crowd into our lovely ruin…until I realized that this was like manna from heaven! These nuns, dressed in wonderfully simple black habits, wandering through the site, were making interesting still life shots burst into life. So I abruptly left our guide and ran around, trying to match up these wonderful architectural features with the wandering nuns. This one fell into place, and a second before and a second after, there were tourists wandering into the field of view with pink shirts and cameras around their necks.

This is probably my favorite image from our trip to Turkey. We were near Ephesus, visiting the Basilica of St. John. It is a beautiful and very photogenic church built in the 6th century AD, with lots of doorframes and arches that created wonderful internal framing opportunities. While chatting with our guide, I was a little bummed when a large group of Coptic nuns showed up to crowd into our lovely ruin…until I realized that this was like manna from heaven! These nuns, dressed in wonderfully simple black habits, wandering through the site, were making interesting still life shots burst into life. So I abruptly left our guide and ran around, trying to match up these wonderful architectural features with the wandering nuns. This one fell into place, and a second before and a second after, there were tourists wandering into the field of view with pink shirts and cameras around their necks.